Monday, September 22, 2014

minuet/minute: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Monday, September 22, 2014

minuet/minute
Shakespeare’s colleague and popular comic actor Will Kemp was famous for his stunt of dancing the jig from London to Norwich (about 80 miles). That’s what I think of when I see real estate ads boasting “only five minuets from downtown!”

This is one of those silly typos that your spelling checker won’t catch, because “minuet” is a real word.


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